US-Israel strikes continue as Iran appoints new supreme leader

US and Israeli warplanes launched fresh waves of strikes across Iran in the second week of the conflict, while Mojtaba Khamenei — son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — was appointed supreme leader as crowds gathered in Tehran's Enghelab Square in a defiant show of support. Trump gave contradictory signals on the war's end, calling it won but 'not won enough', while Iran's foreign minister declared negotiations with Washington permanently off the table. Iranian counterattacks hit targets in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Cyprus — the first EU member state struck — prompting Macron to declare it 'an attack on Europe'.

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